Ice-scraper and brush sweeping device.



W. G. REID & A. J. SMITH. IUE SGRAPER AND BRUSH' SWBEPING DEVICE.

APFLIOATION FILED 001m, 190e.

Patented Deo. 29; 1908.

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fltmwm UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

WILLIAM G...nEID AND ALEXANDER J. sMI'rHoF ooLD sPRING, NEw YORK. i

`'mE-s"C'RAPER Alvi) BRUSH swEEPIivepEvIcE.I

To all whom it may concern:

Be 'tknown that we, WILLIAM G. REID and ALEXANDER J .1 SMITII, citizens of the Unitedv States, residing atCold Spring-onf f Hudson, thefcounty of Putnam, State of f lhlew'York, have invented certainnew, and 'l the like.

The primary object ofthe invention is the provision of an ice scraper and rush sweeplng device adapted to be mounted upon a car truck and arranged in advance of the front car wheels, the ice scraper having means frictionally engaging a Icar /rail to limit the the travel of the car, and he brush sweeper and scraper adapted to b driven by the car wheel through suitable gearing, and foot downward movement of /ld scraper during meansto -bring the ice scraper into operative position so\that.ice,`sleet or the like will be cut from the rail' groove and be cleaned from the rail by the brush sweeper.

. Another object 0f the invention is the provision of .an ice scraper and brush sweeping device for s/treet railways and adapted to be mounted upon the car truck, thesald sweeper receiving/its motion from the car Wheel and 'the ice scraper being under the control of a Imotprman or person operating the car, the

said'ice scra er and brush sweeper being arranged in a Vance of the front' car wheel orwheels to cut the ice or sleet formed on the rail and to sweep the same therefrom.

With these and other objects in view the invention for example consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and as illustrated in the accom anying drawings which disclose the prererred form of embodiment of the invention. However, it is to beunderstood that changes, variations and modifications may be resorted to such as come properly within the scope of the claims hereunto appended without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a railway car truck and rail with the invention applied in position on the truck. Fig. 2 isa front view of the car truck. Fig.

i Speciification of Letters Application filed bctob'r 1908. Serial No. 457,740.

` Fig. 5 is a detail view of theic'e scraper.

. Patented Dec. a9, 190s.

"3 is a plan view of a'car truck with the inveni y tion applied thereto. Fig. 4 is a rear end view of a 'car truck looking toward the lfront with the ice scraper mounted on the front cross beam thereof andthefoot operating lever connected to op'erate'the 'ice scra er.

1v. 6 is a se'etional view vof the frictionallwheiel and itsgear. f

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In the drawings, thereV is shown the'lice scraper and brush sweeping device as appliedr to arrailway car'truck in a vance of one front sponding parts throughout thev several views car Wheel; however it is to understoodf hat the' same may be duplicatedoiithe opposite side ofthe car truck@ Supported byt the car truck 7 near the front thereof are the usual car wheels 8 havinglperipheral.flanges 9'to engage in a groove rai 10, the latter being of the conventional form as used in street railroad construction. To the front cross beam 11 of the car truck is mounted a bearing plate 1 2 forming a sleeve l13 in which is slidably mounted a vertical stem 14, the latter having a lower bearing end 15 supporting a transverse rotatable axle 16 having fixed thereto an ice scraper 17 the latter adapted to-.xengage in the rail groove so as to cut ice therefrom upon the advancement or forward travel of the car truck. At o posite ends of the said axle 16 outside-o the wheels or rollers 18 which latter are adapted to engage the tread ortion ofthe rail l0 to limit the downwar movement of the ice scra er during the forward travel of the car truc i Projecting 'upwardly from the floor 19 above the car truck is a split lug 20 having ivoted thereto as at 21 one end of a depressible foot lever 22 the latter pivoted as at 23 to the upper end of the stem 14 carrying the ice scraper. Between the floor 19 and the foot lever 22 near the free endr thereof is a coiled extension spring 24 the latter adapted to normally hold the said foot lever slightly elevated so as to maintain the ice scraper 17 out of engagement or contact in the groove of the rail.

' Depending from the car truck 1s a bracket 25 in. which is journaled a grooved friction wheel 26 thelatter in en agement withl a flange 9 of the car wheel an having mounted on the same journal supporting the frlction wheel 26, abeveled gear 27 the latter enmesh v with a beveled gear 28 fixed to one end of a brush 'sweeper 29 the latter journaled in a bracket and having fixed to its opposite end a beveled gear 31 the latter enmesh with a beveled pinion 32 Ahaving integral therewith a gear 33 the same being sup orted or journaled'lupon a bracket arm 34 epending from the front cross piece of the car truck. The said,l axleI 16 has fixed thereto a gear 35 adapted-to be brought into mesh wlth the gear 33 so as to impart positive movement or rotation to the ice scraperwhen brought into o erativ. position b an operator depressing t e foot lever 22 to ower the stem 14 in the sleeve 13 xed to the cross beam of the car truck. It is obviousthe brush sweeper acts u on the tread'of the rail in its rotation and t rows the ice and snow to one side of the latter thus cleaning the track during the forward travel of the car truck. In other words the brush sweeperrotates transversely on the lo gitudinal extent of the rail.

W'at isclaimed is ,4 1. The combination with a carl truck and its car wheels of a brush sweeper, mechanism actuated by the -oar wheels to impart rotary movement to the brush swee er, an ice scraper. arranged in advance o 'the brush sweeper, friction meansfadapted to engage the tread of a rail to limit the downward Inovement of the ice scraper, a foot lever operat ing u on said ice scraper to bring the frictiona means into engagement with a rail, and gear connection between the sweeper andiice scraper.

2."` The combination with a wheeled car truck, of a brush sweeper arran ed inadvance of the wheels of the car truc a frictional wheel contacting with the wheel of the car truck, gearing actuated by the frictional wheel to impart rotary motion to the brush sweeper, a vertically slidable stem mounted on the car truck and havin a forked lower end, an ice sera er journaledinthe forked end. of said stem, Ifnrictional wheels coperative with the ice scraper and adapted to contact with the rail to limit movement to the ice scraper, a spring controlled depressible foot lever connected with the stem and normally holding the ice scraper in an elevated position', and gear connection between the sweeper and ice scraper to actuate the latter.

In testimony whereof, we afiix our signatures, in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM G. REID.

ALEXANDER J. SMITH. Witnesses:

THOMAS F. KANE, EDWARD J. ENGELBRLDE. 

